[Soccer] Euro 2024

With Scotland playing Germany in the opening match of the Euros I thought you may all appreciate some phrases to help you fit in with Scotland supporters (you are all - @chris excepted - supporting Scotland, right?)

Yes Sir, I can Boogie - An unofficial anthem amongst the Scottish support for reasons possibly too complicated to explain. Let's just say it has it's origins in a stag do, a Scottish defender in drag, a recording studio booked to recreate the music video for this song & no doubt copious amounts of alcohol.

Should we play Adams or Shankland up front? - Che Adams & Lawrence Shankland are the 2 main Scottish strikers & there's been much debate about which of the 2 should start for Scotland.

I'm worried about right back - Much like Adams & Shankland up front there was debate about whether Aaron Hickey or Nathan Patterson should play at right back. Unfortunately they're both injured & no-one seems to know who our third best right back is.

If you're falling, you're playing - It doesn't matter how badly you're doing, you're here & that's the important thing.

Another glorious failure - This will be Scotland's twelfth major tournament & despite some decent performances they've never made it out of the group stages. But this time will be different.
 
Obviously I'll be supporting Belgium, and hey, don't worry, we only have one untested left back in our whole selection since all the others are injured or not playing.
Expect "If only Courtois was here" on every goal we take - the best keeper in the world (well, one of, at least) but he's not playing for the national team anymore due to personal differences. The replacement(s) aren't bad but not of the same level.
We've got attacking power to spare, a midfield that can only work as long as Kevin is feeling well, and a defense that wouldn't be out of place in, say, the third division of UK soccer.
But I will be going to the match against Romania to see it live, so I've got that going for me.
 
I'm drinking a beer that was on whiskybarrels, in honor of both.
I have sympathy for Scotland if course but I was born in Germany soooo
 
Germany probably thought back to the 5-1 they suffered against England in 2001 and thought, "Eh, Scotland... close enough. Let's mug 'em."
 
So, you guys know how Kylian Mbappe broke his nose in the match against Austria?

And you guys have probably heard about how he'd have to train and play with a protective mask now, to protect his fractured nose?

And, well, you guys know how Kylian Mbappe has sometimes been described as looking like a ninja turtle?

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I'm tempted to say France - Netherlands was a better match than Spain - Italy.
Italy just never really got anywhere, this had two teams really fighting for it.
 
It went quite a bit better. Now we just need a defense who doesn't give the ball to the opponent, and strikers who can actually score when given the opportunity.
 
Well, not another glorious failure then. Just a failure. Scotland were dire all tournament.

Hoping for the best for Barnabas Varga though. He was getting treatment on the pitch for a long time before getting stretchered off.
 
Yeah, I have a lot of sympathy for Scotland, and I was really rooting for you guys (for the supporters, and the underdog, and atmosphere, and England, and all) to get a decent match and win against Hungary, but...Man. The quality just wasn't there.
Varga seems to be doing fine, though I doubt we'll be seeing him again this tournament.
 
It may be better to go out like Scotland than go through like England. Good lord they're playing terrible.
Man of the match - the viewer who managed to endure that ordeal.
 
There's been plenty of debate on how Gareth Southgate should be perceived. Is he a good manager who's successfully achieved consistently decent results in international football, which is notoriously unpredictable? Or is he a bad manager who's got some of England's most talented players ever playing dour and negative football? Are England succeeding because of Southgate, or in spite of him?

So far in this tournament, the evidence is strongly on the "in spite of" side.
 
There's been plenty of debate on how Gareth Southgate should be perceived. Is he a good manager who's successfully achieved consistently decent results in international football, which is notoriously unpredictable? Or is he a bad manager who's got some of England's most talented players ever playing dour and negative football? Are England succeeding because of Southgate, or in spite of him?

So far in this tournament, the evidence is strongly on the "in spite of" side.
The consensus at my work is that England have a fantastic group of players - probably the best at the tournament - but they don't have anything approaching a team. And that is almost certainly Southgate's fault.
 
Four teams with four points, it's unique!
Poor Ukraine, I have to say they deserved it more than Belgium. This was terrible.
 
Germany - Denmark. What a downpour. At least the fans in the station are still in a good mood. Sorry for the fans at the public viewing that had to go home.
 
Number of cardiac infarctions in England reaches all time high :aaah:
I was really rooting for Slovakia by the end there, sheesh, so close!
 
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